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Embracing Sacrificial Love When Romance Fades

Posted on March 22, 2025 in: Marriage

While listening to a Barbara Streisand CD recently, her duet with Neil Diamond, “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers,” began to play. You remember the song. The wife laments that her husband no longer brings her flowers or sings her love songs. The husband says she no longer talks to ...

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What Had I Gotten Myself Into?

Posted on January 09, 2025 in: Events, Marriage

Sixteen years ago, my wife, Mary-Jo, was approaching a significant birthday. I wanted to do something special for her. I asked our youngest daughter what she thought her mom would want. She immediately responded, “A Marriage Encounter Experience. Haven’t you been listening to her?”...

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Trusting in the Goodness of Our Spouse

Posted on November 19, 2024 in: Marriage

While vacationing this summer at Badlands National Park in South Dakota, my husband wanted to hike a short but steep ascent up one of the vertical walls of stone that comprise the Badlands. Standing at the bottom of the wall, looking up, I was reluctant to proceed. The trail looked too daunting f...

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Diocese Celebrates Faithful Love: Anniversary Couples Honored at Special Mass

Posted on November 11, 2024 in: Marriage

On marriage, Pope Francis has written: “Love is not a feeling. Feelings come and go with the days and weeks. Love is more. It is a commitment to live through good times and difficult ones, through sickness and health, through thick and thin. Love comes from only one source: God. God is the bas...

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Living Out Your Dreams for Your Marriage

Posted on September 27, 2024 in: News, Marriage

Last year, my husband and I presented a marriage enrichment in which we challenged couples to look at their future dreams for their relationship. The premise was that dreaming about their future would help couples shape the choices they were making to see those dreams fulfilled. We were...

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Diocese to Recognize Anniversary Couples

Posted on September 03, 2024 in: Events, Marriage

On Sunday, Nov. 10, the annual Silver and Golden Wedding Anniversary Mass will be held at the Cathedral of Saint Patrick in Norwich. This year’s Mass will honor the enduring love of married couples. The Mass will begin at 2 pm. Each couple registering for the Mass will rece...

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The Beauty of God’s Creation Continues to Stun and Amaze

Posted on August 25, 2024 in: Reflections, Marriage

Editors note: Mary-Jo McLaughlin, Catholic Family Services Coordinator for the Diocese, and her husband, Pat are on a cross-country camping trip this summer. Here she shares some of the beauty and experiences the couple has encountered thus far. Words and pictures are inadequate to capt...

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Having Fun in Our Couple Relationship

Posted on August 09, 2024 in: Marriage

Last year, my husband and I said “yes” to a new responsibility in our ministry with Worldwide Marriage Encounter that required us to write 16 talks about different aspects of our relationship in 16 weeks. Whew! It was one of the most challenging and stressful times I can remember in our ...

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Managing Conflict in Your Spousal Relationship

Posted on May 22, 2024 in: Marriage

When two people from diverse backgrounds, upbringing and life experiences come together, they are bound to experience some conflicts. No relationship, regardless of how great it is or how long it has endured, is immune from disagreements. Whether those disputes are major or minor, the key to mari...

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The Secret Weapon to a Stronger Marriage

Posted on April 09, 2024 in: Marriage

Embracing Forgivness in Four Words “Will you forgive me?” I will never forget the power of those four words the first time my husband asked them of me. In many ways, they meant more to me than him saying, “I love you,” because the very fact that he acknowled...

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